340 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Ougeinia. 



29. Ougeinia, Benth. 



A tree. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; leaflets large, stipellate ; 

 stipules free, deciduous. Flowers in densely fascicled racemes in 

 leaf -axils and on old wood ; pedicels filiform, fascicled along the 

 rhachis ; bracts small, scale-like ; bracteoles beneath the calyx, 

 minute, persistent. Calyx-tube campanulate, the lobes obtuse, in 

 2 lips, the upper of 2 connate, the lower of 3. Corolla exserted, 

 rose-coloured or white, the petals clawed ; standard suborbicular ; 

 wings obliquely oblong, spurred, slightly adnate to the obtuse 

 incurved keel. Stamens diadelphous, 9 and 1 ; anthers uniform. 

 Ovary sessile, niany-ovuled ; style incurved, subulate ; stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear, elongate, flat, of 2 or more oblong, large, 

 more or less distinct, scarcely dehiscent joints. Seeds compressed, 

 reniform ; cotyledons foliaceous ; strophiole 0. 



OUGEINIA DALBERGIOIDES, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 161 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 t. 36 ; Brand. For. Fl. t. 23. Dalberyia oojeinensis, Roxb. ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 391. 



Northern Circars, forests of Gairjam, Vizagnpatam and 

 Godavari, up to 4,000 ft ; Deccan, scarce in the forests of 

 Mysore to the N. slopes of the Nilgiris ; sometimes planted 

 for ornament. 



A moderate-sized, often gregarious tree, very pretty when 

 its masses of rose-coloured flowers are open before the new 

 leaves appear. Bark light brown ; wood hard, close-grained 

 and tough, with a light brown heartwood, useful for carts 

 and implements. Vern. Hind. Sandan; Ur. Bandhona; Mar. 

 Tiwas ; Tel. Telia motku. 



30. Desmodium, Desv. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves pmnately 1-3- 

 rarely 5-foliolate ; stipules usually striate, dry, free or united 

 into one leaf -opposed one ; stipels subulate. Flowers usually 

 small, purple or red or white, in copious usually dense, terminal 

 or axillary racemes, sometimes in axillary umbels or fascicles ; 

 bracts single or in threes, striate or subulate and persistent or 

 membranous and deciduous ; bracteoles large and persistent or 

 minute or wanting. Calyx-tube short, campanulate or turbinate, 

 the 2 upper teeth more or less connate, the 3 lower acute or 

 acuminate. Corolla exserted ; standard obovate or orbicular, 



